Browsing by Author "Hopewell, Ashley"

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Classification and Clustering Approaches to Understanding Customer Ordering by Customers of a Fresh Food Supplier

Clement, Ross; Kang, Parminder Singh; Duffy, A. P.; Hopewell, Ashley (Conference)

Purpose: This paper looks at characterization of B2B customers of a fresh food wholesale company supplying SME clients in terms of their weekly orders of a variety of fresh products. Customers whose orders can be predicted ...
Knowledge Engineering Based Forecasting to Improve Daily Demand Prediction for Refrigerated and Short Shelf-Life Food Supply Chains

Kang, Parminder Singh; Clement, Ross; Hopewell, Ashley; Duffy, A. P.; Garicia-Taylor, Marilu (Conference)

The accuracy of demand forecasting for companies in the food industry is highly important, especially for those that deal with products that require refrigeration or that have short shelf-life, given the fact that the ...
Using Agent-Based Simulation to Investigate Daily Order Variation of a B2B Fresh Food Supplier

Clement, Ross; Kang, Parminder Singh; Hopewell, Ashley; Duffy, A. P. (Conference)

Agent-based simulation has been used to simulate customers of a B2B fresh food supplier, in order to examine why total orders vary considerably on a day by day basis. Different types of virtual customers can be included ...